The garden has been designed and built by Nicholsons to raise awareness of The Valley Girls’ fund raising
trip to India in February 2015 in aid of British Heart Foundation, Vasculitis, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital & Southampton Hospital.
The lines of plants are inspired by the growing beds on our nursery; row upon row of perfect planting. They are all brought together in the containers to enclose a private garden with an authentic Kadai firebowl for cooking and for keeping warm on chillier evenings. Exotic scented climbers frame the entrance to the shelter with handmade candle lanterns casting a soft light at night. The packing cases used as containers remind us of the trade links between the UK and India.
This garden is entirely built by recycling materials found around our nursery in North Aston, Oxfordshire. The plants are all borrowed from our nursery, the packing cases salvaged from our wood fuel pile and the shelter reused from a previous show.
It was important to us to know that the materials will be recycled afterwards too. The plants will go back to the nursery to be used on landscape schemes and to be sold in our tree and hedging centre, the pallets will be chipped and used to fuel our woodchip boiler.
The Flower Show is open from 20th -22nd June so do drop in and say hello if you are there.
